1But realize this, that in the last days difficult
times will come. 2For men will be lovers of self, lovers
of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents,
ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious
gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4treacherous,
reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5holding to a form of godliness, although they have
denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 6For among
them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women
weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7always
learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men
also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to
the faith. 9But they will not make further progress; for
their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes's and Jambres's
folly was also.

10Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose,
faith, patience, love, perseverance, 11persecutions,
and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium
and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all
the Lord rescued me! 12Indeed, all who desire to live
godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13But evil men
and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and
being deceived. 14You, however, continue in the things
you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have
learned them,15and that from childhood you have
known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that
leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16All
Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for
reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17so
that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

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